The artist Jeff Koons reproduced two Frangelico advertisements, "Stay in Tonight" and "Find a Quiet Table", in his 1986 Luxury & Degradation series of paintings and sculptures based on the role of alcohol in culture. According to Koons he used the Frangelico ads to "defin[e] a $45,000 and up income", in contrast to other works in the series which correspond to lower income levels. --Wiki, of course.
Found this excerpt...again..did I already do a post on this?
..when I was researching aperitifs/digestifs awhile back... Chou chou income starting at $45,000 caught my eye.
...Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) could potentially collapse within three years...
What is the AMOC? It is a complex system of currents responsible for keeping our climate relatively stable and transporting carbon and nutrients. As warm water near the ocean surface gets pushed northwards, it warms Europe on its way to the North Pole, where it forms sea ice. The salt gets left in the ocean, and, due to its salinity, it becomes dense and then drops to the ocean floor, where it moves south before being pulled back up to the surface to warm up again. This cycle can take around 1,000 years to complete, yet research in 2021 warned that the AMOC “could be close to a critical transition to its weak circulation mode,” where it will slow even further.
[Don't Worry] If there's a hell below, we're all gonna go
---Curtis Mayfield
Thanks to the commenter of this article for the song quote.
When come time to do, Everybody's laying
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
...[C]limate systems all around the world will be altered irreversibly. Research in Nature Climate Change found that surface cooling will begin over the North Atlantic and expand Arctic sea ice before moving into the North Pacific and spreading south toward the tropics. This would result in the Pacific Ocean entering into a permanent La NiƱa phase, which could cause disastrous monsoons and flooding in the South Pacific and increased drought and heat in North America.
...Europe is projected to witness more frequent winter storms and see more summer heat brought up from the south, with Southern Europe becoming even drier—meaning more wildfires and intense heat waves. As Southern Europe bakes, Northern Europe will see increased precipitation, although it has been found that much of the U.K.’s arable land will rapidly become unproductive. South Asia will experience a weakening of monsoon circulation, and rainfall in Asia and Africa will be affected. (Whalley)
And everybody saying don't worry
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
They say don't worry
This article says people power can do something by not eating meat....I don't want to be apathetic, but I just don't see how people are going to get together enough to make a dent. I'm still weirdly hopeful or I still have hope inside me. Maybe because I'm a parent.
Our people power is supposed to be the government, but it's so damn divided it's hard to make a move. A consumer strike would be interesting, but I guess it's too far in the future..three years..to be proactive.
We are a reactive species.
And damn it, I just want to think about ETs and UFOs!
Journey into the Desert with Fleur Cowles and Donovan and Cary Grant and Salvador Dali and Queen Elizabeth and nearly everyone who was a big someone, at one time-- Marilyn Monroe Fleur made friends and kept them, as her memoir states.
I have to document my periodical curiosity with Fleur Cowles--I will love her style always, but my focus has once again waned....like Robert Mitchum and Slavs. I wonder what's next! So exciting!
Desert Journey by Cowles, Donovan album cover
Picnic on the floor with Cary
Her study, my wish
Love the cig table setting
Her portrait, my wish
Fleur's extravagant magazine, Flair
For the jet set
For the art set
For the fox hunting set
For the New York set
For the sun set
Known for cool cut-outs in the cover
Inside the July 1950 issue
Cut-out by Dali for the Annual issue...
...Flair only lasted one year
But Fleur Cowles lasted 101!
"I have an idea a minute...I'm a born idea myself." -Fleur Cowles
I'm watching Robert Mitchum interviews--Dick Cavett-1971 and Cinema Showcase 1978 I haven't figured out my curiosity about him, but it's at least a temporary focus.
I watched the end of The Yakuza while back and it was very good. Of course a bummer with all the death and unnecessary (to me) finger chops, but the interiors and look of the time is exquisite. Was cool to see the actor who played the Japanese cop from Black Rain young.
I'm sort of curious about one of Mitchum's biographies, Baby, I don't care. The title is awesome. Of course I had to read the reviews...there are a lot of informative ones on there--I still don't know if I want to read about what an awful drunk he was, but this review cracked me up--
Reviewed in the United States šŗšø on October 18, 2022
Verified Purchase First of all I used the book for personal reasons. The book it’s supposed to be used and I was amazed at the excellent condition it came. It looked as if it came out of the mill. I was very impressed.
I love this idea. I love the name, The Opal. I'm weirdly jealous.
Copied from Wikipedia:
The Opal (1851–1860) is a ten volume journal written, edited and printed by the patients of the Utica State Lunatic Asylum, circa 1851. On its more than 3,000 pages, writers talked of their experiences and world views, giving great insight to the environment of New York's premiere state-operated Asylum, in Utica, New York. Themes that continuously arose in the poetry, prose, political commentary, and articles about insanity include issues concerning medication, restraint, seclusion, human rights, liberty, overcoming oppression, and support.
Influenced by Dr. Amariah Brigham's belief of "the curative value of mental occupation," his successor, Dr. Nathan Benedict, launched this publication by the patients of the asylum.
This article, referenced on the Wikipedia page, is interesting, touched a nerve. If I ever open a hobo house, it will have a periodical.
It would be great if these volumes were digitized. I'd love to spend time with The Opal!
This time that I spent with The Opal (1851-1860) was precious to me. I laughed. I cried. I became enraged and then inspired. --Lauren J. Tenney (author of the linked article, Who fancies to have a Revolution here?)
Little is known of Tintoretto's childhood or training. According to his early biographers Carlo Ridolfi (1642) and Marco Boschini (1660), his only formal apprenticeship was in the studio of Titian, who angrily dismissed him after only a few days—either out of jealousy of so promising a student (in Ridolfi's account) or because of a personality clash (in Boschini's version).[6] From this time forward the relationship between the two artists remained rancorous, despite Tintoretto's continued admiration for Titian. For his part, Titian actively disparaged Tintoretto, as did his adherents. -per Wikipedia
"So I point out the fact that David Zaslav, the CEO of Warner Bros. Discovery, which is the parent company of the network I'm talking to you on right now, was paid $250 million last year. A quarter of a billion dollars!” Conover exclaimed.
"That's about the same level as what ten thousand writers are asking him to pay all of us collectively, alright? So I would say if you’re being paid $250 million — Ted Sarandos made about $50 million last year — these companies are making enormous amounts of money. Their profits are going up. It's ridiculous for them to plead poverty when the writers who are making their shows, some of them are not able to pay their rent or their mortgages," Conover continued. "I literally know writers who have had to go on assistance because they have not been able to make their year. If you look at these companies, they’re making more money than ever. It's the people who make the shows for them that are making less."
MOHELA is Missouri's state-created higher education loan authority, and the supposed financial harms it would suffer under the student debt cancellation plan arecriticalto the right-wing officials' case. If the Republican plaintiffs can't prove that MOHELA—which isnot itself a plaintiffinBiden v. Nebraska—would sufferconcrete harmfrom student debt cancellation, their case falls apart.
According to the new report by the Roosevelt Institute and the Debt Collective, not only would MOHELA not be harmed by the Biden administration's student debt relief plan—it would actually see its direct loan revenue rise if the plan is enacted.
"Our new research examining this claim suggests that MOHELA's year-over-year revenue from direct loans will actually increase substantially, even after debt relief," the report states. "Assuming President Biden's proposed cancellation goes through, we estimate that MOHELA will service more than twice the number of accounts it serviced at the beginning of the Covid payment pause. It will also earn nearly twice as much revenue servicing federal direct loans as it has in any year prior to cancellation."
The groups said their findings were bolstered by internal MOHELA documents that they obtained through a public records request. MOHELA's "own internal impact analysis," the report notes, "shows it would make more revenue the first year after cancellation is processed than it did in 2022 or any prior year."
"The entire premise of the lawsuit against student debt relief rests on the idea that 43 million student debtors shouldn't get relief for which they were already approved because one of the corporations contracted by the government to collect student debt, and thus the state of Missouri, will be financially harmed in the process," the report concludes. "Our analysis reveals this assertion to be false. In contrast, MOHELA will earn higher revenue than ever before, even after cancellation is administered—contradicting the plaintiffs' argument and calling into question their claims to standing."
You know, Johann Bayer. The German lawyer and uranographer. He has a crater on the moon? Ring any bells?
Entering year 4 with the pandemic. What were the Spanish flu people doing in year four?
Per wiki: The winter of 1921–1922 was the first major reappearance of the disease in the Northern Hemisphere, in many parts its most significant occurrence since the main pandemic in late 1918.
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